D-Fend markets EnforceAir across a wide span of civilian and government settings: international airports, correctional facilities, stadiums and public events, land borders, critical infrastructure sites, and military bases.³ By 2026 the company described the system as fielded in more than 30 countries, including the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing partners — the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — alongside other G7 and NATO member states.⁴ In the United States specifically, EnforceAir has been tested or fielded by units within the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice.⁵

The company behind the system was founded in Netanya, Israel, and built its product line around a single premise: that a drone's own radio link, rather than the surrounding spectrum or the airframe itself, is the most useful point of intervention near sensitive sites where broadband jamming risks interfering with legitimate aircraft navigation equipment, cellular networks, or other radio traffic.⁴

That framing became central to the company's growth. By 2026, D-Fend reported annual revenue climbing toward $185 million with more than 50 percent growth in each of the prior three years, and on 1 June 2026 Motorola Solutions agreed to acquire the company for $1.5 billion, aiming to pair D-Fend's mitigation technology with the drone-detection sensors Motorola had acquired through its 2024 purchase of Dedrone.⁶

EnforceAir's detection layer works passively: rather than emitting a signal and waiting for a return, as radar does, the system listens for the RF emissions a drone and its ground controller already exchange, and it does not require line-of-sight to the target.¹ From those emissions, EnforceAir extracts a drone's protocol fingerprint along with identifying details such as make, model, and serial number where available, and it can flag drones that have had that identifying information altered or stripped out.¹ D-Fend states that EnforceAir2, the current baseline hardware generation, detects drones at ranges up to 4.5 kilometers with 360-degree coverage, though the company qualifies the figure heavily: actual range depends on the drone's protocol, line-of-sight conditions, and background RF interference, and published mitigation range for the same hardware runs from roughly 1.2 to 4 kilometers depending on environment.⁷ In a dense urban RF environment, D-Fend's own figures fall to about 2 kilometers of detection and roughly 1 kilometer of mitigation range.⁴

Mitigation works by exploiting the same protocol the drone already trusts. Because most commercially available drones control their flight through a proprietary, largely unencrypted or weakly protected RF link between aircraft and handheld controller, EnforceAir's software-defined radio (SDR) hardware can inject commands into that link once it has characterized the protocol, taking functional control away from the original operator.^1,8 The system then executes one of several pre-set responses: a full "safe landing" at a location the security team defines in advance, a "safe route" that steers the drone away from a protected area before releasing it, or a "fend-off" mode that simply severs the original operator's connection so that the drone's own failsafe logic — typically a return-to-home or auto-land routine built in by its manufacturer — takes over instead.¹ D-Fend states the system can track and mitigate multiple simultaneous drones, including coordinated swarms, without requiring an operator to manage each track individually.¹

The hardware is built around a ruggedized SDR platform paired with ultra-wideband, omnidirectional MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) antennas, packaged for transport in Pelican Air cases and designed, per the company, around a compact size-weight-and-power footprint relative to earlier hardware generations.⁷ Operators manage the system through a web-based application running on a ruggedized, multi-touch tablet that presents detected drones on a map view alongside a target-details panel; the same software supports autonomous operation, where the system executes pre-authorized mitigation on its own, and manual operation, where a human operator confirms each takeover.¹ D-Fend has packaged this detection-and-mitigation engine into several interchangeable physical kits — stationary pole-mounted, vehicle-mounted (including covert configurations), tactical tripod, backpack, and maritime — that trade portability against mounting height, power supply, and antenna gain.^7,10

D-Fend Solutions was founded in Netanya, Israel, by Zohar Halachmi, Yaniv Benbenisti, and Assaf Monsa; company profiles place the founding as early as 2016, with some retrospectives describing the business taking shape from a "garage" start in 2017.^4,16 Early funding rounds, including a $28 million raise disclosed in 2019, brought total disclosed funding to roughly $67 million from investors led by Vertex Ventures and Vertex Growth, alongside Claridge Israel, Israel Growth Partners, and SBI JI Innovation Fund.^11,17

EnforceAir's first major government exposure came at the Black Dart 2019 exercise, an annual US military counter-UAS evaluation event, where the system was assessed alongside fifteen competing RF-based products.¹¹ The US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) subsequently selected EnforceAir as the core radio-frequency component for its "Counter Drone 2" program, running additional testing at a government facility later that year.¹¹ By the end of 2019, D-Fend reported the system had been tested or deployed across more than 20 units and agencies within the US Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice, including Special Operations Forces, the Army, the FBI, and Customs and Border Protection.¹¹

The system's next major US government milestone came in April 2022, when the Pentagon's Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) — established in February 2020 to coordinate counter-drone acquisition across the US military services — evaluated EnforceAir at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.¹⁸ The JCO subsequently recommended EnforceAir as the only named RF-cyber-takeover technology integrated as a subcomponent within SAIC's Valkyrie command-and-control system, a distinction D-Fend has continued to cite against jamming-based competitors.¹⁸

D-Fend expanded EnforceAir's civil-aviation credentials through the FAA's Airport UAS Detection and Mitigation Research Program, joining in 2023 at Atlantic City International Airport before extending participation to Syracuse Hancock International Airport; the FAA's evaluation of EnforceAir2 concluded in mid-2024 that the system did not adversely affect airport operations, aircraft navigation, air traffic services, or the broader National Airspace System.^20,21 In March 2025, D-Fend opened a dedicated UK entity and London office, citing an already substantial installed base across major British international airports and national, metropolitan, and local police forces.¹⁰

The US Army fielded EnforceAir2 operationally during the multinational Combined Resolve 25-02 exercise at Hohenfels, Germany, where soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Armor Brigade Combat Team mounted the system on a tripod for static ground-unit protection, part of the Army's "Transforming in Contact" initiative evaluating electronic-warfare and counter-UAS tools within deployed force structures.²² The Army's 2025 Technology Excellence Awards subsequently recognized EnforceAir2 with its Innovation Award in the Adaptive Counter-UAS category.²³

D-Fend's expansion into large-venue civilian security continued in April 2026, when the University of Alabama selected EnforceAir as its counter-drone technology supplier for a campus spanning 3.5 square miles and 330 buildings, and for game days at Bryant-Denny Stadium, which draws more than 100,000 spectators plus an estimated 70,000 additional tailgaters on the surrounding grounds.²⁴ University officials said a single EnforceAir unit, evaluated from an elevated position during a trial period, identified well over a thousand drones operating near campus, informing the decision to integrate the system into the university's emergency operations center.²⁴

Two months later, on 1 June 2026, Motorola Solutions announced its agreement to acquire D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billion, a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026 that would combine D-Fend's mitigation technology with the Dedrone detection sensors Motorola had acquired in late 2024, giving Motorola an end-to-end detect-and-mitigate product line sold through its existing public-safety sales channels.⁶

The original EnforceAir, fielded from around 2018 and validated through US government testing programs beginning in 2019, established the RF-cyber-takeover concept as D-Fend's core product, and the company supported that hardware generation for several years before replacing it.¹¹

EnforceAir2, launched in August 2023, replaced the original hardware around new software-defined-radio circuit boards, extending detection and mitigation range and adding a backpack deployment kit with concealed antennas and hot-swappable batteries for dismounted or covert operation.¹² D-Fend continued to update EnforceAir2's software after launch: a July 2024 release added an AI-assisted mitigation-recommendation engine and a "Disrupted Environments" operating mode intended to maintain performance in RF-congested settings, and later updates added expanded detection coverage and a dedicated naval/maritime deployment configuration.¹³

EnforceAir PLUS, launched in August 2025, keeps the EnforceAir2 RF-cyber engine as its foundation but adds a compact, four-panel solid-state radar and an optional software-defined RF jamming module, fusing all three data sources through a proprietary engine D-Fend calls "SmartAir."¹⁴ The company positioned EnforceAir PLUS for higher-threat scenarios — large public venues, military sites, and locations where lawmakers were expanding legal authority for broader counter-drone use — where RF-cyber takeover alone might not address every drone type a site could encounter.^14,15 As of 2026, EnforceAir PLUS represents D-Fend's most capable configuration, while EnforceAir2 remains the baseline product for customers who want cyber takeover as a standalone, non-jamming mitigation layer.

D-Fend describes EnforceAir as fielded in more than 30 countries, a figure that includes the Five Eyes intelligence partners, other G7 members, and multiple NATO states, though the company discloses few country-by-country details for security reasons typical of the counter-drone sector.⁴ The clearest documented operator base is within the United States, where EnforceAir has been tested or adopted by units across the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice — including Special Operations Forces, the Army, the FBI, and Customs and Border Protection — alongside the FAA's own airport-safety testing program and, at the state and local level, university security programs such as the University of Alabama's.^5,11,24

The United Kingdom is the clearest confirmed operator outside the United States: D-Fend cites an established base of EnforceAir systems at major UK international airports and across national, metropolitan, and local police forces, formalized by the March 2025 opening of a dedicated UK subsidiary and London office.¹⁰ Israel, as D-Fend's home country, is understood to have domestic security and defense customers for the system, though public reporting on specific Israeli installations is limited, consistent with the general secrecy that surrounds Israeli base- and site-defense deployments.⁴

In Canada, the Hamilton Police Service integrated an EnforceAir2 unit into its Emergency Operations Centre as part of a joint remotely-piloted-aircraft-systems detail securing the 55th Annual JUNO Awards, held on 29 March 2026 at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, before roughly 19,000 attendees inside the venue and several thousand more outside it.²⁵ Beyond the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, D-Fend's public disclosures name Australia and New Zealand only collectively, as part of the Five Eyes grouping said to operate the system, without country-specific contract details available in open reporting as of this writing.

EnforceAir's closest published point of comparison is DroneShield's DroneGun MkIII, a handheld RF and GNSS jammer that represents the mitigation approach EnforceAir was built to avoid.² DroneGun MkIII disrupts a drone by flooding its control and satellite-navigation frequencies with noise across the 433 MHz, 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz bands plus GNSS L1/L2 signals, typically forcing the target to land immediately at its current position or auto-return along its incoming flight path; it does not choose where the drone ends up, and it requires a handheld, line-of-sight aim at the target from within roughly 500 meters.²⁶ EnforceAir instead takes over the drone's own control channel, so a defined "safe landing" location well beyond DroneGun MkIII's field of aim becomes possible, and EnforceAir reaches out several kilometers from a fixed or vehicle-mounted position rather than depending on an operator physically pointing a handheld unit at the target.^7,26

The trade-off between the two approaches is one of reach against simplicity. DroneGun MkIII needs no protocol-specific engineering against a given drone model: it disrupts the entire relevant frequency band regardless of what the drone is running, at the cost of a short handheld range and an outcome the operator cannot steer beyond stopping the aircraft somewhere nearby. EnforceAir's protocol-level approach reaches further and produces a directed outcome, but only against drones whose control link it has already characterized, leaving encrypted or fully autonomous targets to jamming, kinetic, or radar-directed defeat systems. Both are marketed as non-kinetic, and neither claims to defeat drones with no live RF uplink to a ground operator.

MASS Assessment

MASS scoring rates EnforceAir across ten components tied to what is publicly documented about the system, rather than a single blended figure.

Non-kinetic options (80) is EnforceAir's standout score: taking full control of a drone and landing it at a chosen point is a more capable non-kinetic outcome than jamming's forced-drop or return-to-home, and it is the system's only mode rather than one option among several. Mobility (70) and technology (80) follow from its range of deployment forms — fixed, vehicular, tactical, backpack, and maritime configurations of the same core protocol-manipulation engine.

Multi-target capability (30) is EnforceAir's clearest weak point: taking over a drone's control link requires characterizing that specific drone's protocol first, which does not scale the same way a wide-band jammer's blanket disruption does against a swarm of dissimilar or unknown airframes. Detection range (40) trails for a related reason — its passive RF sensor depends on the target drone actively transmitting a recognizable control signal, so a fully autonomous or radio-silent drone falls outside what EnforceAir alone can characterize and take over.

Against DroneGun MkIII, EnforceAir's advantage is a directed, chosen outcome at several kilometers rather than a forced, uncontrolled landing at under a kilometer — at the cost of needing the target drone's protocol already characterized, something a simple wideband jammer never requires.

Does EnforceAir jam drone signals? No. D-Fend markets EnforceAir specifically as a non-jamming system: rather than broadcasting noise across a frequency band, it identifies a drone's control-link protocol and injects commands into that same link to take functional control of the aircraft.¹ EnforceAir PLUS, launched in 2025, adds an optional RF jamming module alongside the cyber-takeover core, but the baseline EnforceAir and EnforceAir2 products do not jam.¹⁴

Can EnforceAir defeat any drone? No. The system depends on characterizing and manipulating a drone's own control protocol, which limits it against encrypted, frequency-hopping military-grade links and against fully autonomous drones that carry no live RF connection to a ground controller.⁹

Is EnforceAir legal to use in the United States? Its use is restricted. Intercepting and manipulating a drone's radio link can implicate the federal Wiretap Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, so US deployment of EnforceAir's core capability is authorized only for specific federal agencies and, since the FY2026 NDAA, certified state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and correctional agencies.¹⁹

Who makes EnforceAir? D-Fend Solutions, a company founded in Netanya, Israel. In June 2026, Motorola Solutions announced an agreement to acquire D-Fend for $1.5 billion, a deal expected to close by the end of 2026.^4,6

How is EnforceAir different from EnforceAir2 and EnforceAir PLUS? EnforceAir was the original product line; EnforceAir2, launched in 2023, replaced its hardware with updated software-defined-radio circuitry and added a backpack deployment kit; EnforceAir PLUS, launched in 2025, keeps the EnforceAir2 cyber-takeover engine but adds radar and an optional jammer for higher-threat environments.^12,14